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Show ROADandB41ftM IMPROVEMENT FARM NOTES. Any farmer can make his farm a model with time, planning and work. Getting along with anything that will do is not making the most of conditions. con-ditions. With corn, as with animals, do not forever be mixing and crossing breeds. By fertilization, cultivation and selection, se-lection, try to improve the breed, and seed corn to sell. It is best to manure corn ground in the winter and plow or disk it under in the spring. Every beekeeper needs one or more books on bee culture, dealing with the keeping of bees. Farmers in general now are building build-ing in a more substantial way. The use of concrete is responsible for a part of it. New corn as part ration Is good for horses doing fall work, and it is excellent for fattening beef cattle. Corn should not be planted on sod which was broken up this spring for the first time until late in the season. The barn set on a concrete foundation founda-tion looks substantial, and it Is so, and will last longer than the one set on wooden posts or blocks. As soon as the corn plants are tall enough so the driver can see the rows, go into the field with a disk cultivator and disk the ground twice. On a hard and shallow soil white clover does not ordinarily last more than two years, but on' the richer and moister lands It will grow for many years without reseeding. Many farmers are so Intent on making ma-king money for the money's sake that they take no thought of the great possibilities pos-sibilities of perfect living in the country. coun-try. Alfalfa is so unlike any other forage crop that it requires method of curing altogether different from that used in curing timothy, clover or any other meadow grasses. A prolific queen bee will during her life lay 1,500,000 eggs, each one-fourteenth of an inch long. Put together they would make a chain 13.4 miles long. Bees are worth all the trouble they require to fertilize the stigmas of the flowers in your orchard. The yield of honey is clear profit I |